| The Committee wished to know whether the Government was contemplating its criminalization as a form of violence against women. |
| The attitude toward the poor is at best one of official indifference, and at worst outright criminalization. |
| Far from protecting women, criminalization victimizes, oppresses and endangers them. |
| Statutory welfare agencies have also used the threat of criminalization to secure compliance to new social norms. |
| The criminalization of responsible drug users is only one of the many pointless aspects of drug prohibition. |
| More work is needed to combat the problem of stigma and discrimination, universal access and criminalization. |
